The French and Indian War was a war between the French and the English. It helped create the first attempt at unifying the English colonies in North America. The things that started the war were 1) religion, and 2) walking over the Appalachian Mountains. It was called the French and Indian War because the French were allies with the Huron and Algonquin Indians. The English had allies, too. They were Native Americans from the Ohio River Valley, the almighty Iroquois Nations. This would make sense because the Huron Indians and the Algonquin Indians were old enemies of the Iroquois Nations.

Now, before the war happened, the French had claimed a major amount of land. They started at the St. Lawrence River, went as far west as the middle of present day Montana, and southeast through present day Wyoming, Colorado, the middle of Texas, to the toe of the boot of Louisiana. The Proclamation of 1763 was made to prevent Colonists from moving past the Appalachian Mountains. But one colonist/trapper went past that line into French territory looking for furs. Once he had some, he would sell them at a lower price than the French to the Indians. Because of this, he took over the fur trade business leaving the French in the dust. Obviously, the French did not like this. They wanted to stop this trapper before he got to the Ohio River. The reason was because of the river’s importance. This is when France and England got their Native American allies.

There is only one word to describe what came next: WAR! France and England slugged it out. George Washington’s first loss was at Fort Necessity which was a makeshift fort on the run. Washington lost to the French and was taken prisoner. He was later released and went back home. This loss was the first step towards freedom from England for the colonies. The American Revolution had begun. English troops made an attempt to take over Fort Duquesne. After William Pitt became leader of the British...

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...﻿Rachel Sparks
US History
February 19, 2015
For decades, the French traded with the Indian tribes. This move created a civilized alliance with the Indians so that they could have a new region to claim as New France. Precious beaver furs was the main selling point. Soon enough, tensions rose whenever Pennsylvanians and Virginians decided that they also wanted to lay claims on this new found frontier land. This led to massive conflict between the colonies and ended up being one of the most brutal massacres in history. This is also known as the Seven Years’ War. The French and Indianwar changed the relationship between the British and American colonies. By seeing this land as a way to enhance each’s wealth and power they would go to no extent to reach their goal, no matter what the consequences were. The French and Indianwar changed the perspective of British and American colonies in about every way of economically, ideologically, and politically. Politically it effected the colonies by republicanism, ideologically because of independence, and economically through the taxation.
In document one, the colonial power in pre-war 1754 started out as evenly disputed throughout North America. Some of the colonial power over certain parts of North America were shared between Great Britain and the French before the...

...Richard Adames
The French and Indianwar was a war that embarrassed the French, nearly bankrupted the British, screwed the Native American, and paved way to the American Revolution. The French and Indianwar was named after the British opponents, the French and Indian even though Native Americans fought on both sides. Other names used for thewar include The Seven Year war, the Fourth Intercolonial war, and the Great War for the Empire. The seven year war was a power struggle between Great Britain, France, Austria, and Prussia. These conflicts stretched across most of the world. Our main focus is in North America where the name the French and Indianwar comes into play but it is important to understand that a power struggle was already in place. The war started over territory which included parts of upstate New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and parts of Ontario with the Ohio country being the most important because of rich game and fur trade.
The war was fought primarily along the frontiers separating New France from the British colonies from Virginia to Nova Scotia, and began with a dispute over the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, the site of present-day Pittsburgh,...

...﻿1. FRENCH AND INDIANWAR (1754–1763) The French and IndianWar (1754–1763) was the last of a series of great colonial wars that stretched for almost a hundred years and disrupted settlements throughout North America. It marked the end of the French empire in North America and the beginning of English domination of the continent. It also emphasized the differences between Englishmen and colonists and laid the groundwork for the drive toward independence, culminating in the American Revolution (1775–1783). The events that sparked the French and IndianWar had their origin in the trade with Native Americans. The French had claimed the territory surrounding the Great Lakes and had established Christian missions and trading posts throughout the area. They hoped to profit from the trade in furs that they maintained with the Indians. By the 1740s, British traders were entering the nearby same area of what became the state of Ohio, crossing over the Appalachian and Allegheny Mountains and competing with the French. Because British trade goods were cheaper and better made than those the French offered, many Native Americans—including the Wyandot chief Memeskia, the Shawnee, and the Delaware, chose to break with the French and establish links with the English...

...Causes:
The Seven Years' War (called the French and IndianWar in the colonies) lasted from 1756 to 1763, forming a chapter in the imperial struggle between Britain and France called the Second Hundred Years' War. In the early 1750s, France's expansion into the Ohio River valley repeatedly brought it into conflict with the claims of the British colonies, especially Virginia.
Groups involved:
France , New France,Wabanaki Confederacy, Abenak ,iMi'kmaq ,AlgonquinCaughnawaga Mohawk, Lenape ,Ojibwa ,Ottawa ,Shawnee ,Wyandot
Battles:
British defeated at Ft. Duquesne | 1755 | Western Pennsylvania (present-day Pittsburgh) | Gen. Braddock's force of 1450 men surrounded and defeated by Indian and French-Canadian forces |
American colonists refuse to serve under British commander | 1757 | American colonies | New British commander (Lord Loudoun) closely managed the war effort, demanding exact numbers of recruits and money from colonies. Colonial assemblies began to refuse to cooperate. |
French take Ft. Oswego | 1756 | Upstate New York | French commander Montcalm takes fort, but is horrified to discover that his Indian allies kill wounded soldiers, take scalps, and make slaves of captives. |
Massacre at Ft. William Henry | 1757 | Upstate New York | Following...

...The French and Indianwar, which lasted from 1754-1763, resulted in a victory for the British over the French, which led to the French leaving North America. It also resulted in negative political, economic and ideological differences between the British and the American colonies. Politically the colonies were not happy because they could not expand further west, economically they felt oppressed by the British with all the taxes being place on them, and ideologically because of the governing of the British without representation.
Politically with the British, the American colonies were not pleased. After 1763 and the end of the French and IndianWar, the colonies had more than doubled their land as shown in document A. However, due to the Proclamation of 1763 being issued, which stated the colonists couldn’t go past the Appalachian Mountains. If they did go past the line drawn by the British, they would not be protected un the British due to their unwillingness to pay for their protection. The British knew that the Native Americans would fight for their land and were very protective of it as shown in Document B, a speech delivered by Canassatego, a Chief in the Iroquois Confederacy, to the representatives of Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania in 1742. Canassatego most likely gave this speech because he was the leader of a people who did not want their land...

...#4
The French and IndianWar, a colonial manifestation of the same forces and tensions that erupted in the European Seven Years' War, was, quite simply, a war about expansionism. The French and the English were competing for land and trading privileges in North America; which lead to land dispute, particularly the Ohio Valley. Each nation saw this territory necessary to seize to increase its own power and wealth while limiting the strength of its rival. Although the war itself occurred from a simple being, its consequences were far- reaching. The English had won the war and decided the colonial fate of North America, but yet at the same time showed the beginning of a colonial revolution. After the war, the British ended their reign of salutary neglect, so the colonials would be watched under a closer eye. The British also raised taxes in an effort to pay for the war. Both of these postwar plans resulted in massive colonial displeasure and added to nationalism that eventually exploded in the Revolutionary War. Thesis Statement: Prior to the French and IndianWar the colonists enjoyed salutary neglect, but soon after the defeat of France and the acquirement of French land, the almighty British implemented mercantilism, settlement restrictions, and several...

...Throughout the French and IndianWar (1754-1763), the relationship between the British and the American colonies underwent many radical changes. This war drew the British into America to fight the French alongside of the American colonists. Once the fighting began, the vast economic, political, and ideological differences between the colonists and their mother country of Great Britain surfaced. The French and IndianWar impacted the political correlation between Britain and the American colonies because the colonies desired a new democratic government in place of the former English monarchy. Additionally, the war altered the economic relations between the two because of the establishment of numerous British taxations to pay for the war and it’s colossal debt. This gave rise to the change in ideological relations because now the colonists had dreams of independence.
The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty France signed after the British defeated them in 1763, required France to surrender it’s large western territory in Louisiana and other claims to Spain in compensation for it’s loss of Florida to Great Britain. Along with Florida, Great Britain also gained territory in French Canada. The map of colonial Empires in North America in 1754 and 1763, shows the shift of colonial power before and after the French...

...The French and IndianWar
Like the Great Awakening, the struggle between England and France for New World empires also helped prepare the colonists for independence. While the English esablished colonies on the Atlantic seaboard, the French built a profitable fur trade with the Indians farther inland. As French colonists moving south from Canada met English colonists moving west of the Appalachians, the two groups lashed in the Ohio Valley. The conflict stemmed from rivalry over territory, fur trade with the Indians, and fishing rights. This rivalry contributed to worldwide conflit between England and France; as a result,the rival nations fought four wars between 1689 and 1763. The first three of these wars King William's War , Queen Anne's war, and King George's war started in Europe and spread to North Amerca. The fourth war, fought between 1754 and 1763, started instead in America and spread to Europe. Because the French and Indians joined forces against the British, this war became known as the French and Indianwar. When the French moved far enough south to realize that many English colonists had already settled in the rich Ohio Valley, the French government began...